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Old Pulteney from Wick, a 15 year old, from 2006 selected by Hart Brothers, at 52.6%. Oily and coastal, with dried fruit over a coastal salt. Clean, salty and honeyed. Matured by the North Sea at Wick. The Maritime Malt of Wick. Briny, waxy and well aged. Sea air and honey in balance. Coastal Caithness character.
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From Hart Brothers comes this Old Pulteney at 15 year old, from 2006 and bottled at 52.6%. Set by James Henderson in Pulteneytown, Wick, Pulteney has distilled since 1826. Old Pulteney is known the world over as the Maritime Malt.
It was worked through Pulteney's boil ball stills, fed by Loch Hempriggs, before long maturation by the sea drew in its coastal character. An Oloroso butt held it, sherry meeting the sea salt. By this age the waxy, honeyed core settles in over the brine. The cool, damp northern climate slows maturation, letting the spirit take wood gently over many years. Wick built its fortune on herring and whisky, the silver and the gold of the north. Everything once moved by sea here, barley in and casks out across the North Sea. The water runs from Loch Hempriggs along a lade Thomas Telford laid in 1807.
Bottled at a cask strength 52.6%, it is rich. The Oloroso brings salted dried fruit, fig and walnut, and a salty maritime note sit alongside light vanilla from the refill oak. It is rounded and deep, the maritime note woven in. A long, honeyed finish carries a saline tang. This is the seaside style that made the distillery's name.
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